Sounds pretty accurate to me Bren. Spitfires had to be got airborne v.quickly after firing up as their engines overheated.
Your best bet is to take a look in the cdp file and check the settings there, or alternatively try a better coolant like beer

Ozzy

Oops. You're quite right Doug, I do apologise, I'm typing rubbish again! Sorry Steve

Mark

Hi Brensec,

We are a friendly bunch that post over on Avhistory and the guys that know are always only too happy to help.

I do have the B17 and can get it off the ground, usually.
As well as cowl flaps you can also play with the prop pitch which will make a lot of difference to the engine temperature. Reducing the pitch (lower %) will enable the engine to spin at higher reves which cools the radial engines plus letting more air in. Once speed increases along the runway it may be possible to increase the pitch to get max speed but I thikn most of the 1% planes give best performance with the pitch set to 80 - 90%.

As Ozzy said, once you have started the engines you need to get the wheels rolling straight away and open the cowl flaps all the way or feather the engines if you are taxiing.

The trick seems to be keeping them cool in the first place. Once they are hot you need a lot a airspeed to cool them down.

I hope this helps, and it's good to see more people flying the 1% planes. In my opinion they are much better to fly than the stock type planes.

Ozzi & Hagar,
I'm interested by your comments that the planes are hard to fly as I find all stock planes are incredibly twitchy and hard to fly as I now almost exclusively fly 1% planes.

Except, of course, for your excellent Korean campaigns Hagar, fantastic work!

Thanks for the info, Kev. Welcome to out little 'hidie hole'.

I love the 1% planes from AV. I have quite a collection. As you say, the stock planes do seem to be a bit 'touchy' on the stick. The 1%'s seem to be more gradual in their response.

Not knowing otherwise, I assume this is the way it was. it suits me anyway. It makes for a more challenging dogfight, especially when it's possible to over-stress the plane, which is impossible in the default planes.

Thank you and all the other blokes, for their hard work.

What's the story on 1% for CFS3. I haven't been to the site for a little while. is there a story about 1% planes for CFS3?
I can't play it on my PC, but I am curious for when I can. 

Yep. I read all the notes. There's nothing specific regarding settings for takeoff, other than the 'checksheet'.

I can get it off the ground if I'm on a longer strip (or overshhoot and kill a few people...... )
But it still, to my liking, and what I imagine, overheats far, far too quickly. After all these things had to start up, wait their turn and do a fair amount of taxiing before they could get up. I've seen film of about 20 B29's lined up at Tinian, all with engines running.
So it can't be right, as far as I can see.

Ok, the B17's in Britain and Europe wouldn't have had to queue as much, but still they had a reasonable wait before getting up.

Anyway, It's not the end of the world.

I know what you mean about the trim and sttings etc having to be right. I can't see that they way I can throw the Defaults around could possibly be accurate. But hey, what ever, it's all great as far as I'm concerned.

hi all,

Yep, Thunderboy is correct. And that is how the bombers could 'wait' or taxi prior to take off.

Having landed in a multiplayer game I idled on the runway for 5 mins with prop pitch set to 0% (or as close to as is possible) and the engine temp stayed at 80°C for all that time. I then took off by increasing the prop to 80%(ish) with no probs. This was from one of the stock small dirt strips. Not sure which one.

Lastly, Bresec, you should come join us on-line some time. There is no cheating amongst the 1% planes and we are all flying to have fun and be friendly.

Kev

My general rule is below 200 kts, knock down the prop 4 clicks or so, and WATCH temp.
I have a new 1% Wildcat Campaign at Sim-Outhouse with a panel CFG in it that puts the 1%Wildcat temp guage where you can plainly see it, if you like fighter missions...